Tudors

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  • Jan 28, 1547

    Death of King Henry VIII

  • Period: Jan 28, 1547 to Jun 6, 1553

    Reign of Edward VI

  • Jan 31, 1547

    Edward Seymour appointed Lord Protector.

  • Feb 20, 1547

    Coronation of Edward VI

  • Oct 14, 1549

    Somerset sent to the Tower.

  • Oct 11, 1551

    Warwick made Duke of Northumberland.

  • Dec 1, 1551

    Somerset sentenced to death.

  • Jan 22, 1552

    Somerset Executed.

  • Jun 12, 1553

    Edward VI names Lady Jane Grey as successor.

  • Jun 21, 1553

    Royal Patent declares princesses Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate.

  • Jul 6, 1553

    Death of Edward VI.

  • Jul 10, 1553

    Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen.

  • Aug 3, 1553

    Mary acclaimed Queen in London, Lady Jane imprisoned.

  • Aug 22, 1553

    Northumberland executed for treason.

  • Oct 1, 1553

    Mary I Coronated.

  • Period: Oct 1, 1553 to Nov 17, 1558

    Reign of Mary I

  • Feb 12, 1554

    Lady Jane Grey executed, Elizabeth Imprisoned.

  • Mar 6, 1554

    Mary formally betrothed to Philip of spain.

  • May 22, 1554

    Elizabeth freed from the Tower.

  • Jul 25, 1554

    Mary marries Philip of spain.

  • Jan 16, 1556

    Charles V abdicates.

    His son, Philip II, becomes king of spain and the netherlands. His uncle, Ferdinand, becomes Emperor.
  • Mar 30, 1558

    Mary I alters will to allow only her own children to succeed her.

  • Period: Nov 17, 1558 to

    Reign of Elizabeth I

  • Jan 10, 1559

    Philip II proposes to Elizabeth.

  • Jan 15, 1559

    Elizabeth I crowned in Westminster.

  • Feb 10, 1559

    Elizabeth declares to parliment she has no plans to marry.

  • Jun 5, 1559

    Elizabeth rejects marriage proposal from charles, archduke of austria.

  • Jun 8, 1561

    Sussex proclaims Tyrone traitor.

  • Jul 13, 1561

    Elizabeth refuses mary of scots safe passage to Scotland.

  • Oct 28, 1562

    Elizabeth ill with smallpox, Robert Dudley named protector.

  • Mar 1, 1564

    Elizabeth offers mary of scots Robert Dudley as husband.

  • Feb 22, 1565

    Archbishop of Armagh put in tower.

  • Jul 29, 1565

    Mary of scots marries henry stuart, lord darnley.

  • Mar 9, 1566

    Darnley involved in a coup, resulting in murder of david Rizzio.

  • Jun 16, 1566

    Birth of Prince James stuart.

  • Aug 3, 1566

    Shane o'Neill declared traitor after he burns Armagh cathedral.

  • Oct 25, 1566

    Mary of scots seriously ill at Roxburgh.

  • Dec 24, 1566

    Royal pardon for Rizzio's murderers.

  • Feb 10, 1567

    Darnley murdered at Kirk o'field.

  • Apr 24, 1567

    Mary abducted and imprisoned by Bothwell at Dunbar castle.

  • Jun 2, 1567

    O'neill killed in brawl.

  • Jun 15, 1567

    Scots nobles victory at carberry hill, Bothwell flees.

  • Jun 20, 1567

    Mary imprisoned for complicity in murder of Darnley.

  • Jul 24, 1567

    Mary abdicates in favour of year old son.

  • Jul 29, 1567

    prince james proclaimd King James VI of scotland.

  • May 15, 1568

    mary defeated by moray near glasgow., flees to workington.

  • Period: Oct 1, 1568 to Jan 31, 1569

    Commissioners at york and westminster hear Mary's case.

    Cases made for/against mary, 'casket' letters produced against her.
  • Sep 1, 1569

    Duke of norfolk plots against Elizabeth.

  • Nov 1, 1569

    Rebellion of Northern Earls.

    Northern earls (Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland and Charles Neville, Earl Westmoreland.) rebel in favour of Mary of scots, held in sheffield castle. They flee to Liddesdale, scotland.
  • Nov 1, 1569

    Thomas howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, arrested.

  • Jan 1, 1570

    450 members of earls rebellion executed.

  • Jul 8, 1570

    Excommunication of Elizabeth by Pope pius V.

  • Sep 3, 1571

    Mary of scots supporters kill Earl of Lennox.

  • Jan 16, 1572

    Norfolk found guilty of treason.

  • Jan 21, 1572

    Queen Elizabeth defers Norfolk's execution.

  • Jun 1, 1572

    Elizabeth's name linked to duc d'Alencon, pressed for heir by parli.

  • Jun 2, 1572

    Norfolk executed.

  • Aug 29, 1572

    Sir Francis Drake siezes Spanish treasure in west indies.

  • May 7, 1573

    Elizabeth renews treaty of Blois.

  • Aug 9, 1573

    Drake returns to plymouth with enormous treasures.

  • Jun 1, 1578

    Elizabeth reconsiders marriage proposals to Duc Alencon.

  • Aug 1, 1579

    Francis, Duc of Alencon, woos Elizabeth I

  • Nov 3, 1579

    John Stubbs executed for objecting to marriage proposals between eliza & Alencon.

  • Mar 18, 1581

    Parli. dissolved after passing law declaring conversion to catholicism treason.

  • Apr 4, 1581

    Drake knighted aboard the 'Golden Hind'.

  • Nov 2, 1581

    Francis, Duc d'Alencon, arrives in London to Finalise Marriage negotiations.

  • Feb 1, 1582

    Alencon leaves England after negotiations fail.

  • Death of Duc Alencon. Henri of Navarre heir to French throne.

  • 'Bond of association' given legal force.

    Bond is signed by people, in which they pledge to protect the queen and overthrow her enemies.

  • Spanish relations fall when Philip II has english ships in atlantic ports seized.

  • drake sets sail for Spanish-America.

  • Hawkins returns to england from spain, reports of planned invasion.

  • Mary of scots trial at Fotheringay castle, Northamptonshire.

  • Mary declared guilty of treason.

  • Elizabeth reluctantly signs death warrant of Mary of scots.

  • Execution of mary of scots.

  • Drake sets sail from Plymouth to destroy spanish fleet.

  • Spanish armada sets sail under Duke medina from Lisbon.

  • Spanish armada damageed by fireship attack at calais, forced to flee.

  • Storm off Ireland destroys at least 25 spanish ships.

  • Murder of catholic king, Henry III of France.

    Henri of Navarre proclaimed new king by troops.

  • Spanish plot against James VI discovered.

  • King Henry IV converts to catholicism.

  • Plot to kill queen discovered.

    Spanish assisting Father holt, sir william stanley and captain Edmund yorke.

  • Banquet to celebrate 30 years on the throne.

  • Sir walter raleigh sets sail to find 'El Dorado'.

  • Raleigh returns empty handed.

  • Fears of a new spanish armada.

  • Spanish fleet headed for Ireland lost at sea.

  • Elizabeth forbids publication of Lambeth Articles.

  • Death of Drake at sea off panama.

  • Spanish raid near plymouth.

  • Wreck of spanish fleet bound for Ireland off Finisterre

  • Spanish fleet bound for Ireland wrecked in bay of biscay.

  • Queen refuses Essex's new year gift.

  • Essex tried before private commission on 5 counts.

    Desertion, failure in ireland, conferring of knighthoods and appointment of southampton against Queens orders, tone of his letters, meeting with Tyrone.

    Queen partly pardons him: deprived of office and placed under house arrest.

  • Court alive with talk of Queens imminent death.

  • death of Elizabeth I at Richmond.

    James VI named successor with dying breath.